PHYSIOGNOMY.

The PHYSIOGNOMY has a considerable share in beauty, especially in that

of our own species. The manners give a certain determination to the

countenance; which, being observed to correspond pretty regularly with

them, is capable of joining the effect of certain agreeable qualities of

the mind to those of the body. So that to form a finished human beauty,

and to give it its full influence, the face must be expressive of

such gentle and amiable qualities, as correspond with the softness,

smoothness, and delicacy of the outward form.

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